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I spent some time this week throwing together a more formalized list of Kickstarters I'm watching. There are several interesting system-neutral ones in flight, but in terms of what's new or outgoing, it's an uneventful week, with only one campaign to highlight.

Next week should be more interesting, as there's a handful of campaigns ending during the first week of December. -- K

Coming to an End

Coming up in the next week, we have one Kickstarter closing:

The Tome of Umbral Lore

• A book focused on the biology, sociology, and lore of the undead to aide GMs with world building.

  Systems: System Neutral

  Launched: 29 October

  Closes: 28 November

Other Campaigns

There was also one system-neutral campaign that's in flight, and that I didn't notice last week:

Tapestry of Towns: A Game Master's Compendium

• 20+ richly detailed fantasy settlements with maps, NPCs, and plot seeds

  Systems: System Neutral

  Launched: 31 October

  Closes: 6 December

Does anyone know of any blank card templates where I can write actions, spells and other abilities?

I am running a PF2 remaster and I would like to be able to give reminder cards to the players, preferably sized to fit in common magic sleeves and binders for ease of use

I spend more time browsing Kickstarter than I probably should -- I apparently have an addiction to monster books -- I've found myself throwing up more random KS related posts than I'm comfortable with. But, I like supporting writers and developers who are supporting the game (and giving me my fix), so I thought I'd start doing this as more of a weekly digest.

New This Week

Legendary Bestiaries: SWARMS!

• A monster book from Legendary Games that focuses on Swarm-type monsters. The Kickstarter also offers backers the option to 'catch up' on some of their previously released bestiaries.

  Systems: Pathfinder 1e, Pathfinder 2e, Black Flag RPG, and D&D 5e

  Closes: 6 December

BattleZoo Ancestries: Year of Titans

• A book focused on providing players with new character options, focused on large (and larger?) ancestries.

  Systems: Pathfinder 2e, D&D 5e

  Closes: 13 December

Coming to an End

Figgy Pudding Steals Christmas

• A Christmas themed adventure module where players have to investigate a very Grinch-like set of circumstances.

  Systems: Pathfinder 2e, Shadowdark, and D&D 5e

  Closes: 19 November

Others

GM's Toolbox 2

• Adventure seeds, hazard ideas, name generators, NPCs, factions, and a bevy of other system-agnostic GM tools

  Systems: System Neutral

  Closes: 1 December

The Tome of Umbral Lore

• A book focused on the biology, sociology, and lore of the undead to aide GMs with world building.

  Systems: System Neutral

  Closes: 28 November

I spend more time browsing Kickstarter than I probably should -- I apparently have an addiction to monster books -- I've found myself throwing up more random KS related posts than I'm comfortable with. But, I like supporting writers and developers who are supporting the game (and giving me my fix), so I thought I'd start doing this as more of a weekly digest.

New This Week

Legendary Bestiaries: SWARMS!

• A monster book from Legendary Games that focuses on Swarm-type monsters. The Kickstarter also offers backers the option to 'catch up' on some of their previously released bestiaries.

  Systems: Pathfinder 1e, Pathfinder 2e, Black Flag RPG, and D&D 5e

  Closes: 6 December

BattleZoo Ancestries: Year of Titans

• A book focused on providing players with new character options, focused on large (and larger?) ancestries.

  Systems: Pathfinder 2e, D&D 5e

  Closes: 13 December

Coming to an End

Figgy Pudding Steals Christmas

• A Christmas themed adventure module where players have to investigate a very Grinch-like set of circumstances.

  Systems: Pathfinder 2e, Shadowdark, and D&D 5e

  Closes: 19 November

Others

GM's Toolbox 2

• Adventure seeds, hazard ideas, name generators, NPCs, factions, and a bevy of other system-agnostic GM tools

  Systems: System Neutral

  Closes: 1 December

The Tome of Umbral Lore

• A book focused on the biology, sociology, and lore of the undead to aide GMs with world building.

  Systems: System Neutral

  Closes: 28 November

Since I'm shilling for people anyway, I thought I'd give a shout out to one of my favourite PF2e actual plays, Mortals & Portals. They dropped S02E19 this morning, and I'll be listening to it tonight on my long drive down to my folks house.

M&P is a podcast style actual play with high production values and (relatively) short episode lengths (clocking in around 45 - 60 minutes), set in a homebrew world. They're not super uptight about the rules or anything, and just do what they need to to keep the game flowing. It's a lot of fun.

Since I'm shilling for people anyway, I thought I'd give a shout out to one of my favourite PF2e actual plays, Mortals & Portals. They dropped S02E19 this morning, and I'll be listening to it tonight on my long drive down to my folks house.

M&P is a podcast style actual play with high production values and (relatively) short episode lengths (clocking in around 45 - 60 minutes), set in a homebrew world. They're not super uptight about the rules or anything, and just do what they need to to keep the game flowing. It's a lot of fun.

Huge trove of 2e content up on Humble Bundle now, including Player Core and GM Core. Here's a rundown of what's included, cobbled together from some work done by people on Reddit, and some additional legwork of my own:

New to Humble Bundle

• Pathfinder 2e GM Core
• Pathfinder 2e Player Core
• Community Use Package: Pathfinder 2e Remaster Iconics Pregenerated Characters
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #175: Broken Tusk Moon (Quest for the Frozen Flame 1 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #176: Lost Mammoth Valley (Quest for the Frozen Flame 2 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #177: Burning Tundra (Quest for the Frozen Flame 3 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #190: The Choosing (Stolen Fate 1 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #191: The Destiny War (Stolen Fate 2 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #192: Worst of All Possible Worlds (Stolen Fate 3 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path: Quest for the Frozen Flame Player's Guide
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path: Stolen Fate Player's Guide
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Darklands
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Deep Forest
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Dungeon
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Pathfinder Lodge
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Prison
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Red Light District
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Tavern Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Twisted Caverns
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Pirate Ship
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Elemental Planes Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Haunted Dungeons Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Darklands Starter Set
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Perils Expansion
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Urban Perils Expansion
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Urban Starter Set
• Pathfinder 2e Harrow Deck
• Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide
• Pathfinder 2e Quest (Series 2) #14: The Swordlord’s Challenge
• Pathfinder 2e Quest (Series 2) #15: In the Footsteps of Horror
• Pathfinder 2e Quest (Series 2) #16: The Winter Queen's Dollhouse
• Pathfinder Society Intro: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-02: The East Hill Haunting
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-04: The Devil-Wrought Disappearance
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-05: Inheritor's Rite
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-06: Struck by Shadows
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-07: The Locked Lodge
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-08: Foundation's Price
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-09: The Secluded Siege
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-10: Delve the Pallid Depths
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-11: No Time for Treason
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-12: Fury's Toll
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-13: Guardian's Covenant
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-14: The Tomb Between Worlds
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-15: Cavern of the Sundered Song
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-16: Escape from Oppara
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-17: Dreams of a Dustbound Isle
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-18: Dacilane Academy's Delightful Disaster
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-19: Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom

Available in Previous Humble Bundles

• Pathfinder Core GM Screen
• Pathfinder 2e Beginner Box (Remastered Edition)
• Pathfinder 2e Bestiary
• Pathfinder 2e Bestiary 2
• Pathfinder 2e Bestiary 3
• Pathfinder 2e Character Sheet Pack
• Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Monsters of Myth
• Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: World Guide
• Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Character Guide
• Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Starter Set
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Vaults Expansion
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Dungeon Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Island
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: City Sites Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Ambush Sites Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Haunted House
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Forest Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Shipwrecks
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Village Square
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Arcane Library
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Museum

Huge trove of 2e content up on Humble Bundle now, including Player Core and GM Core. Here's a rundown of what's included, cobbled together from some work done by people on Reddit, and some additional legwork of my own:

New to Humble Bundle

• Pathfinder 2e GM Core
• Pathfinder 2e Player Core
• Community Use Package: Pathfinder 2e Remaster Iconics Pregenerated Characters
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #175: Broken Tusk Moon (Quest for the Frozen Flame 1 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #176: Lost Mammoth Valley (Quest for the Frozen Flame 2 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #177: Burning Tundra (Quest for the Frozen Flame 3 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #190: The Choosing (Stolen Fate 1 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #191: The Destiny War (Stolen Fate 2 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path #192: Worst of All Possible Worlds (Stolen Fate 3 of 3)
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path: Quest for the Frozen Flame Player's Guide
• Pathfinder 2e Adventure Path: Stolen Fate Player's Guide
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Darklands
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Deep Forest
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Dungeon
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Pathfinder Lodge
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Prison
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Red Light District
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Tavern Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Twisted Caverns
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Pirate Ship
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Elemental Planes Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Haunted Dungeons Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Darklands Starter Set
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Perils Expansion
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Urban Perils Expansion
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Urban Starter Set
• Pathfinder 2e Harrow Deck
• Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Pathfinder Society Guide
• Pathfinder 2e Quest (Series 2) #14: The Swordlord’s Challenge
• Pathfinder 2e Quest (Series 2) #15: In the Footsteps of Horror
• Pathfinder 2e Quest (Series 2) #16: The Winter Queen's Dollhouse
• Pathfinder Society Intro: Year of Shattered Sanctuaries
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-02: The East Hill Haunting
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-04: The Devil-Wrought Disappearance
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-05: Inheritor's Rite
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-06: Struck by Shadows
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-07: The Locked Lodge
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-08: Foundation's Price
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-09: The Secluded Siege
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-10: Delve the Pallid Depths
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-11: No Time for Treason
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-12: Fury's Toll
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-13: Guardian's Covenant
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-14: The Tomb Between Worlds
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-15: Cavern of the Sundered Song
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-16: Escape from Oppara
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-17: Dreams of a Dustbound Isle
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-18: Dacilane Academy's Delightful Disaster
• Pathfinder Society Scenario #3-19: Mean Streets of Shadow Absalom

Available in Previous Humble Bundles

• Pathfinder Core GM Screen
• Pathfinder 2e Beginner Box (Remastered Edition)
• Pathfinder 2e Bestiary
• Pathfinder 2e Bestiary 2
• Pathfinder 2e Bestiary 3
• Pathfinder 2e Character Sheet Pack
• Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Monsters of Myth
• Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: World Guide
• Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Character Guide
• Pathfinder 2e Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Starter Set
• Pathfinder Flip-Tiles: Dungeon Vaults Expansion
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Dungeon Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Bigger Island
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: City Sites Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Ambush Sites Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Haunted House
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Forest Multi-Pack
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Shipwrecks
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Village Square
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Arcane Library
• Pathfinder Flip-Mat Classics: Museum

Mathfinder -- a math and statistics focused Pathfinder 2e Youtube channel from Redditor u/AAABattery03 -- celebrates 1000 subscribers by giving us some tools to identify poorly thought out or overly general character optimization advice. It's a good watch! Highly recommend Triple A's posts and videos!

Mathfinder -- a math and statistics focused Pathfinder 2e Youtube channel from Redditor u/AAABattery03 -- celebrates 1000 subscribers by giving us some tools to identify poorly thought out or overly general character optimization advice. It's a good watch! Highly recommend Triple A's posts and videos!

u/SillyKenu over on Reddit posted a straw poll this morning asking what everyone's favourite class was. Just in case Lemmy wanted to weigh in, I thought I'd pass it along.

Personally, I'm playing a Guardian (and am really happy with it), but since test classes weren't listed, I chose Oracle. My SO is playing an Oracle, and rework from PC2 has made her so much happier with it, I can't help but love it.

Reddit doesn't allow enough options so found here: https://strawpoll.com/NPgxe850rZ2

Over the past half a year a ton of classes have changed with the remaster, and new classes/options have been added by the truck load. So why not? lets do the Classic discussion thread:what's your fav!

u/SillyKenu over on Reddit posted a straw poll this morning asking what everyone's favourite class was. Just in case Lemmy wanted to weigh in, I thought I'd pass it along.

Personally, I'm playing a Guardian (and am really happy with it), but since test classes weren't listed, I chose Oracle. My SO is playing an Oracle, and rework from PC2 has made her so much happier with it, I can't help but love it.

Reddit doesn't allow enough options so found here: https://strawpoll.com/NPgxe850rZ2

Over the past half a year a ton of classes have changed with the remaster, and new classes/options have been added by the truck load. So why not? lets do the Classic discussion thread:what's your fav!

Haven't had a chance to look at it (or buy it -- curse your finite nature, money!) yet, but Team+'s other releases have been highly reviewed, and I personally have had a great experience with Clerics+ and Oracles+.

For anyone looking for new toys for their Wizard, they now have your back.

Haven't had a chance to look at it (or buy it -- curse your finite nature, money!) yet, but Team+'s other releases have been highly reviewed, and I personally have had a great experience with Clerics+ and Oracles+.

For anyone looking for new toys for their Wizard, they now have your back.

The rules state:

If you find a scroll, you can try to figure out what spell it contains. If the spell is a common spell from your spell list or a spell you know, you can spend a single Recall Knowledge action and automatically succeed at identifying the scroll’s spell. If it’s not, you must use Identify Magic (page 238) to learn what spell the scroll holds.

And Identify Magic says:

Once you discover that an item, location, or ongoing effect is magical, you can spend 10 minutes to try to identify the particulars of its magic. If your attempt is interrupted, you must start over. The GM sets the DC for your check. Cursed magic or esoteric subjects usually have higher DCs or might even be impossible to identify using this activity alone. Heightening a spell doesn't increase the DC to identify it.

Critical Success You learn all the attributes of the magic, including its name (for an effect), what it does, any means of activating it (for an item or location), and whether it is cursed.
Success For an item or location, you get a sense of what it does and learn any means of activating it. For an ongoing effect (such as a spell with a duration), you learn the effect's name and what it does. You can't try again in hopes of getting a critical success.
Failure You fail to identify the magic and can't try again for 1 day.
Critical Failure You misidentify the magic as something else of the GM's choice.

It makes sense to me that the DC should be the spell rank DC. What's not clear to me is how, if at all, a success vs critical success should be played. On a non-critical success, would they get a sense of the type of effect of the magic, but not know the specific spell?

My PCs encountered a vampire. The barbarian successfully trips the vampire and then grabs her.

Que the vampires turn and I am thinking about using the vampires special vapor form, Turn To Mist to get rid of the conditions - there is nothing preventing the vampire using it, it's not even manipulate.
But some of my well-versed-in-rules players seemed to really dislike it, mainly the "free" getting up (which I countered with the polymorph trait, you are getting magically reformed).

In my book it still costs 2 actions (physical to gas then gas to physical) same as removing the grabbed and then Standing up would, it does bypass rolling the fortitude check and any reactive strikes though.

Once you’ve decided "I want to give them a scroll now" or "I think it’s time they deserve to get a spell staff", how do you go about choosing which spells those are?

I assume different people have different ideas here, there isn’t one right answer. This is meant to be an open-ended discussion prompt.

Looks like Paizo has 20% off on rulebooks and some adventures on their website right now, in case soneone was eyeing the books but waiting to pull the trigger.

Looks like Paizo has 20% off on rulebooks and some adventures on their website right now, in case soneone was eyeing the books but waiting to pull the trigger.

On the list of Familiar Abilities one is "dragon". I have a player thinking about picking up the Witch multiclass archetype for a familiar, and asking if theirs can be a dragon.

Is this allowed? Or is there some other context that I might be missing?

Building a rogue, and the description tells me Key Ability should only be Dex, unless a Racket gives another option. I chose the thief racket, which should not provide any extra options, but when I go to select my Class Boost, which is also used to define the ability used for Class DC, I have the options of Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma.

Is this a bug/missing feature in Pathbuilder, or am I misunderstanding what it’s doing?

I assume the intent is that either the answer is both yes or both no. But strictly reading it RAW, I can see a case that they may have different answers.

Step says:

Stepping doesn't trigger reactions, such as Reactive Strike, that can be triggered by move actions or upon leaving or entering a square.

To me, there is a good argument to be made either way, that Ready has a trigger the player sets, and thus it is not prevented. Or that they have chosen the trigger to be "a move action", and thus it is prevented.

Mobility says:

When you Stride and move half your Speed or less, that movement does not trigger reactions.

This is much more black and white. RAW, you cannot Strike someone who Strode less than half their speed.

I’m curious about whether you agree with my RAW interpretation, but even more about whether you think this is intended. And thirdly, if it is intended, whether you think it’s reasonable.

I’m not sure about the second question, but on q3 I definitely think it’s reasonable. Spending 2 actions and your reaction to get just one strike in. From action economy it sounds fair to me that this would bypass Step and Mobility. And from a flavour perspective it also makes sense to me, because a normal Reactive Strike is just quickly taking advantage of an opening they provide, but a Readied Strike is more like heavily concentrating on and waiting for a specific situation, which they shouldn’t be able to avoid just because they only take one step.

Opinions?